How was this real-life "flying blade" created? And what kind of cutting-edge future will it bring?
T1000 grade high-performance carbon fiber
How was it made?
This "super-strong material" has now been put into mass production. Each strand of this material consists of 12,000 individual filaments, with each filament being less than one-tenth the diameter of a human hair. However, it has extremely high tensile strength. A 1-meter-long carbon fiber weighs only 0.5 grams and has a tensile strength exceeding 6600 megapascals. It can pull a weight of approximately 200 kilograms without breaking, and its strength is 7 to 8 times that of steel.
The reporter arrived at the cradle of carbon fiber's origin, where he saw the compounds polymerize and then, through the process of dry spinning and wet drawing, form a bundle of raw fibers. This bundle of raw fibers looks like the transparent adhesive strips commonly seen in daily life, but in fact, it contains 4,000 individual raw fibers, two to three strands twisted together, and each strand eventually forms 12,000 raw fibers.
The true "divine power" not only involves the initial aggregation at the moment of creation, but also involves weaving a delicate and robust network at the atomic level through chemical reactions——
- The white filaments were sent into the oxidation furnace and gradually turned into a yellowish-brown color.
- The filament is sent into a high-temperature furnace ranging from 1000°C to 1500°C. The impurities such as hydrogen and oxygen in the molecule are completely removed, and finally only highly pure carbon atoms are left.
The most common graphite pencil lead and T1000 grade carbon fiber are both essentially composed of carbon atoms. However, the graphite pencil lead breaks easily when bent, while the T1000 grade carbon fiber can pull a car when bundled. The fundamental difference lies in the "weaving" method of the atoms that we cannot see.
In the microscopic textile process, carbon atoms first form an extremely strong hexagonal network - graphene layers. This network itself is very sturdy, but if countless such networks are simply stacked together, they would be like a stack of playing cards, and would collapse with a light push. Graphite pencil cores have this microscopic structure and break easily when bent.
The "weaving" process of carbon fiber is much more sophisticated. It is like using molecular glue to firmly and irregularly bond each layer together, and then compressing the whole thing. Eventually, a super three-dimensional network is formed, which contains both longitudinal fibers and transverse locking elements.
So, when we pull this carbon fiber, the force will be evenly distributed along the billions of carbon atoms in the network.
Nowadays, this so-called "black gold" - the "super-strong material on the surface" - is leaving the laboratory and becoming an indispensable "core framework" for national strategic industries such as aerospace, national defense and military industry, new energy, and high-end equipment.
This real-life "flying blade" will also help realize the soaring dreams of many national treasures in the future!
Post time: Jan-21-2026